Hadoop Contract Job Trends in the South West

Apache Hadoop
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Hadoop skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 121 128
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +41
Contract jobs citing Hadoop 2 13 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.099% 0.52% 0.75%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.88% 4.09% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 14
10th Percentile £440 £636 £536
25th Percentile £451 £659 £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £668 £673
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% -0.74% +25.12%
75th Percentile £498 £676 £750
90th Percentile £511 - £853
England median daily rate £488 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -18.67% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £81.00
90th Percentile - - £90.00
England median hourly rate £85.00 £50.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +70.00% -35.90% -22.00%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
South West

Hadoop falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 228 318 410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.32% 12.80% 12.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 210 287
10th Percentile £313 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £675
90th Percentile £678 £725 £730
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 25
10th Percentile £22.73 - £21.98
25th Percentile £55.13 £17.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £65.00 £27.13 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +139.63% -56.60% +9.92%
75th Percentile - £30.00 £78.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £71.50 £87.86
England median hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +19.99% -33.33% +5.00%

Hadoop
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Hadoop relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Hadoop job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hadoop.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hadoop

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hadoop.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Hadoop

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hadoop within the South West region over the 6 months to 18 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bristol - 1 £435 - 1
Hadoop
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Anomaly Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) R
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform